Thea Astley Quotes

#1. When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!

Jillian Michaels

#2. The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

Park Chan-wook

#3. My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Gene Simmons

#5. Everything you need to know about killing is on television these days.

Jennifer Hillier

#6. In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

Thea Astley

#7. One of the richest pleasures I know of is being housebound because of the wild winter weather outside. With your family about you, a good book on your lap, a roaring fire in the stove, and a good hot dinner in prospect - you are richer than a millionaire.

Annette Jackson

#8. The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.

Michael Crichton

#9. While, naturally, he has to gauge risk, to read the elements, he still often bemoans the hardships of the past. He constantly puzzles over the role of remote influences, like the after-life. He wants to know why events happen as they do, how control is exercised from beyond understanding.

Peter Gray

#10. It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

James F. Cooper

#11. I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself

Thea Astley

#13. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

P.G. Wodehouse